Hanukkah Candle Cookies

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Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup butter, softened
• 1/3 cup oil
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• Pinch of salt
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• Blue food coloring

Instructions:

• Beat butter and oil with an electric mixer or pastry cutter.
• Combine the sugar, flour, baking powder and salt, and add that to the mixture.
• Beat in the egg and vanilla.
• Divide the resulting dough in half and add the blue food coloring to half the dough.
• Cover and chill all the dough, at least one hour, preferably overnight.
• Roll out the dough to 1/4-inch.
• Using a butter knife, cut the dough into strips the length of a finger.
• To form the dough into candles, twist blue and white strips into braids.
• Bake the braided cookies on ungreased cookie sheets for 15 minutes in an oven preheated to 375 degrees.